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Word: turnings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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callouses: only way to identify a real rower. The blades leave raw spots on your hands which turn into brown, scaly callouses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shells, Snags and Sprints | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

...going for club status, but we would turn our attention to the intercollegaite if the response is favorable," Logan commented. "We're hoping to see field hockey become a varsity sport--especially in the Ivies...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Men's Field Hockey at Harvard? | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

...North Cambridge housing project resident, who is registered to vote and also would not give his name, said he was not sure whether he would cast a ballot in the upcoming presidential election. "There definitely isn't a good candidate running. These people turn me off. They're like a couple of school children," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Registration Low in Projects | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...course, Hunter S. Thompson, who at 49 seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce had lived long enough to turn into another Mort Sahl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Guy | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...true spite and malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wise Guy | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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